Patents Examined by Travis R Hunnings
  • Patent number: 11749086
    Abstract: A method for detecting a fall by a user wearing a fall detector, including: detecting a trigger event identifying the time location of a possible fall event in user data; extracting motion features from motion data and physiological features from physiological data from within a time window around the identified time location; and determining whether the detected trigger event is a fall by the user by inputting the at least one of the motion features and at least one of the physiological features into a classifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.
    Inventors: Warner Rudolph Theophile Ten Kate, Inge Theodora Margretha Geven
  • Patent number: 11749100
    Abstract: A system and methods are provided for an emergency support system installed in light poles. Each emergency support system continuously monitors for motion to identify anomalous motion activity on a local level. In response, a notification is sent to a base station that provides a global analysis by collecting motion data from nearby emergency support systems. An alert is generated if anomalous motion is detected across multiple emergency support systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: SIGNIFY HOLDING B.V.
    Inventor: Rohit Kumar
  • Patent number: 11748703
    Abstract: An RFID loss-prevention system (LPS) may monitor RFID-tagged items in a facility. An RFID reader transmits a first inventory command configured to cause tags in a first state to respond, receive a reply from a first tag, determine that the first tag has a low transition risk, and cause the first tag to switch to a second state. The reader may also receive a reply from a second tag, determine that the second tag has a high transition risk, and cause the second tag to remain in the first state. The reader may then transmit a second inventory command configured to cause tags in the first state to respond, receive a reply from the second tag in response to the second inventory command, determine that the second tag has inappropriately exited the facility, and issue an alert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: Impinj, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher J. Diorio, Alberto Pesavento
  • Patent number: 11741817
    Abstract: The present systems and methods relate to a hand sanitizer system that includes a proximity detector, a dispensing system and an alarm feature, and is operative to identify potentially high risk hygiene situations corresponding to a person in proximity of the system failing to dispense antiseptic or other solution from the dispenser within a predetermined period of time after moving within a predetermined range of the detector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: CLEAN HANDS SAFE HANDS LLC
    Inventors: Christopher D. Hermann, Jeremy D. Jass, Lance C. Rigdon, Berkley A. Baker
  • Patent number: 11741816
    Abstract: An electronic device having a self-diagnosis function is proposed. In the electronic device, a fault detector is provided on a primary side of a power board, so that fault states of a main board and a load may be detected even when the main board is broken or power is not applied to the main board. In addition, as long as commercial alternating power is input, even in a state where a power switch is turned off, the electronic device is supplied with the power, so that various types of faults in the main board and the load may be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Han Jin Cho, Gwang Mi Go, Byung Hyun An
  • Patent number: 11741825
    Abstract: A digital video alarm temporal monitoring computer system includes a digital video analytics server including a digital video analytics computer. The digital video analytics computer has non-transitory memory configured to store machine instructions that are to be executed by the digital video analytics computer. The machine instructions when executed by the computer implement the following functions: receiving a temporal digital video alarm monitoring parameter; receiving identifying data indicative of digital video data from a transmitting network camera; determining a digital video alarm monitoring status in response to the temporal digital video alarm monitoring parameter and the identifying data; and transmitting or analyzing the digital video in response to the digital video alarm monitoring status being the active status. The digital video alarm monitoring status includes an active status and an inactive status.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2023
    Assignee: Dice Corporation
    Inventors: Clifford V. Dice, Gerald L. Corrion, Kevin P. Kilborn
  • Patent number: 11730379
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for remote patient management and monitoring. The patient is monitored with a wireless sensor system connected to an application executing on a patient user computing device. The system continuously monitors physiological parameters, such as, but not limited to, blood oxygen saturation (SpO2), pulse rate, perfusion index, pleth variability index, and/or respiration rate from the photoplethysmograph. The system triggers alarms if the patient physiological data violates thresholds. Care providers review patient data and associated alarm(s) with graphical user interfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Masimo Corporation
    Inventors: Omar Ahmed, Nicholas Evan Barker, Keith Ward Indorf, Sungwhan Cha, Sebastian T. Frey, Hyejin Cho
  • Patent number: 11729598
    Abstract: Systems and methods present practical applications to directing emergency alerts from cellular-based message distribution systems to distributed desktop applications via a desktop application gateway. Logic in the desktop applications and their corresponding IP network gateways for the desktop application may direct alerts from the cellular-based system to distributed desktop applications having a connection to the gateway. A distributed application may determine a location of the user and include enhancements to display the alert at a user's computing device. The gateway for the distributed application may store the location information for each logged-in user or registered instance of the user. An interface between the cell broadcast center and the distributed application gateway may allow the gateway to receive the alert, including a region for distributing the alert, from the cell broadcast center, and send the alert to all registered users with a location matching the alert region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: T-Mobile USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Sudhanshu Pandey, Raghavendra Kulkarni
  • Patent number: 11712995
    Abstract: Aspects of the disclosure provide a method of facilitating communications from an autonomous vehicle to a user. For instance, a method may include, while attempting to pick up the user and prior to the user entering an vehicle, inputting a current location of the vehicle and map information into a model in order to identify a type of communication action for communicating a location of the vehicle to the user; enabling a first communication based on the type of the communication action; determining whether the user has responded to the first communication from received sensor data; and enabling a second communication based on the determination of whether the user has responded to the communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Waymo LLC
    Inventors: Salil Pandit, Julien Mercay, Clement Wright
  • Patent number: 11700592
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for adjusting a transmission frequency of a physiological monitoring unit, which includes a capture unit and a receiver unit. The capture unit and the receiver unit are wirelessly connected together and are configured to exchange data on the transmission frequency by means of a programming unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Assmann, Juergen Roessler
  • Patent number: 11699338
    Abstract: A safety warning system including at least one sensor or sensor system to detect an abnormal safety situation relative to a safety zone, at least one network transmitter associated with the at least one sensor or sensor system, at least one controller associated with the at least one sensor or sensor system to receive information from the at least one sensor or sensor system and issue an alert signal based on a comparison of the information received and a safety setpoint, the alert signal issued over a safety zone network, and at least one wearable unit provided for each user in the safety zone, the wearable unit providing at least a tactile alert to the user based on the comparison to warn the user of the occurrence of an abnormal safety situation within the safety zone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Assignee: Hazardtech Pty Ltd
    Inventor: David Fellows
  • Patent number: 11691022
    Abstract: A remote alarm for use with a wearable medical device. The remote alarm is configured to receive alarms, voice messages and prompts issued by the wearable medical device and to repeat those alarms, voice messages and prompts in a manner that can more easily be perceived by a patient wearing the wearable medical device or a bystander. The remote alarm can be configured to receive a communication from the wearable medical device, and in response, to identify one or more messages to be provided to the patient or a bystander. The messages may be provided audibly, visually, tactilely or combinations thereof. The remote alarm may further be configured to take certain actions depending upon the content of the communication, such as sending a telephone message to alert emergency personnel to the identity, location and medical condition of the patient, or sending an email.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ZOLL Medical Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas E Kaib, Shane S Volpe, Richard A Rattanni
  • Patent number: 11688261
    Abstract: A method and system are described for automated child monitoring. The system comprises wearable sensor device wirelessly connected to a mobile device. The system comprises sensors configured to detect environmental factors and activities of a child. In one or more embodiments, the activities may be one or more of drinking, vaping, smoking, driving and presence of a threat for a child. The system may be configured to determine real-time location of a wearer as well as contextual information. The sensor device is communicably coupled to one or more mobile devices, additional wearable devices or fixed units. The mobile device is configured to control one or more operations of the inconspicuous wearable device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SentinelWear LLC
    Inventors: James E. Schorey, Benjamin Kamen
  • Patent number: 11682292
    Abstract: In some embodiments, methods and systems are provided for managing emergency notifications and incident reports at a commercial facility. A graphical interface enables a worker associated with a facility to input information regarding an ongoing/impending emergency event, e.g., Active Threat, Acts of Violence, Fire/Explosion, Injury, Power Failure, Missing Child, Severe Weather, Robbery, Hazmat, Bomb Threat, Covid-19, Store Closure, Special Events etc. This information is processed via an analytical engine that evaluates the entered information in view of various business rules in order to identify the appropriate workers to notify, and generates and transmits the notifications to the employees determined to be suitable for receiving a notification. In response to the generation of the emergency notification, an incident report engine evaluates the entered emergency, and automatically generates an incident report, which may be later accessed and/or modified by workers having a suitable employee access level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Walmart Apollo, LLC
    Inventors: Tanvi Chopra, Grace K. Shea, Sharon Grayce Randolph, David M. Nelms, Rajesh K. Singh, Kartik S. Soni
  • Patent number: 11682283
    Abstract: An electronic patient monitoring system and method of operation that includes one or more generally non-metal, tamper-resistant patient identification and monitoring devices, an observer transmitter/receiver device configured to receive and detect one or more beacon signals that exceed a predetermined threshold from at least one of the not easily removable patient identification and monitoring devices, set a time to hold open a window for a response on the transmitter/receiver device, and send a request for information to the observer with the transmitter/receiver device, and a central computer system. Each of the transmitter/receiver device and the central computer system, including, at least, a computer processor, communications components and system software to communicate with the observer transmitter/receiver device at specified/predetermined time intervals to receive observer- and patient-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Invisalert Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter Nagy, Michele Marcolongo, Regina Widdows, Jonathan D. Albert, Eric Chang, Jason Zerweck
  • Patent number: 11677577
    Abstract: Methods and systems for managing a security system are described. A security server located external to a premises may be in communication with a security system and a gateway device located at the premises. A status signal may be sent to the security server. The status signal may be initiated based on an alarm event. If the security server fails to detect a message of the status signal, the security server may send one or messages indicating the failure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: iControl Networks, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul J. Dawes, Chris Decenzo, Carolyn Wales
  • Patent number: 11657686
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a base station of a first security system, an identification of a portable security system. The method further includes adding, by the base station, the portable security system as a sensor to a plurality of sensors monitored by the first security system. The method further includes configuring, by the base station, the portable security system in protect-mode, wherein the portable security system sounds an alarm in response to a sensor from the second system indicating a security-breach. The method further includes in response to the alarm from the portable security system, generating, by the base station, an alarm event of the first security system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Inventors: Devadatta Bodas, Kanchan Bodas, Rajiv Nashikkar, Tanmay Dharmadhikari
  • Patent number: 11645949
    Abstract: Custom alerts may be generated based on sound type indicators determined using a machine learning classification model trained on user-provided sound recordings and user-defined sound type indicators. A device may provide a sound recording and a type indicator identifying an entity that made a sound in the recording for storage in a database that includes a plurality sound recordings associated with a plurality of type indicators. A machine learning classification model may be trained based on the stored recordings, including the user-defined recordings. The model may be used to classify sounds recorded by other devices and generate alerts identifying the type of sound. Thus, multiple users may contribute data to customize machine learning models that recognize sounds and generate alerts based on user-defined identifiers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Michael Jamieson
  • Patent number: 11645899
    Abstract: A variety of methods, medical devices, responder network servers, emergency services interfaces and call center related processes are described that can help improve responder networks designed to get a medical device such as an automated external defibrillator and/or volunteer responders to the scene of a potential medical incident.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: Avive Solutions, Inc.
    Inventors: Sameer Jafri, Micah R. Bongberg, Rory M. Beyer, Gordon Moseley P. Andrews
  • Patent number: 11645907
    Abstract: A system and method for providing increased traffic carrying capacity of a road, such as a highway, by modifying an existing roadway from, for example, four lanes to five lanes, to create an additional travel lane. The system and method dynamically changes the width of travel lanes using, for example, embedded pavement lights, or other lighting arrangements, in lieu of traditional painted lane lines. As traffic volumes increase and speeds decrease along the road, an intelligent transport system (ITS) sends a congestion signal to the overhead lane controls and dynamic message signs (DMS) along the entire road segment of interest. The posted speed limits are changed, and the lane markings are controlled to dynamically increase the number of lanes in the road segment to five, for example, of narrower widths until traffic volumes reduce and the number of lanes can be returned to four, for example, with normal speed limits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: James A. Soltesz